iPhone photography on Twitter
2 July 2010
http://twitter.com/talesofaflaneur
For the past ten years I have kept a journal and made pictures of significant and quotidian moments. I don’t often photograph what I write about and rarely explore the content of my images with words. I like to think I choose the most appropriate medium for a given subject and try my damnedest to evoke the moment or the sensation or the idea. The constraints of a micro-narrative, of picture and caption, inherent in the Twitter syndication system intrigues me. I love short works of fiction (after all Poe helped invent the form) and I find that my new iPhone is the perfect tool to deliver these little picture and caption pieces via Twitter. This is an experiment, so please do let me know what you think.
Thanks for coming to see Edgar in Brighton
26 May 2010
Thank you to everyone who came to see me in Brighton last weekend in Nevermore, An Evening with Poe. Your generous response to a show that lay dormant for many years thrilled me beyond words. Many thanks also to The Old Police Cells Museum and the kind people at Brighton Town Hall for hosting the show in the deliciously decayed sub-basement of the building. I’ll have some images from the show next week and perhaps a review or two will appear in the digital ether. I’m planning on bringing the show to London, so subscribe to my podcast or my Poe page for further details!
And now back to photography and my travels through the city and the landscape of my mind.
May 2010
Come see my one-man show, Nevermore, An Evening with Poe at the Brighton Fringe - 20, 21, 22 May 2010!
Once upon a midnight dreary, mingle with master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, in an absinthe-laced performance on May 20, 21, 22 at 8pm and May 22 at 4pm at the Brighton Fringe. John Matthews is Poe in this intense and intimate monologue in which Poe recounts the agonies and passions of his life and dramatises some of his most famous work including "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart". Purchase tickets from the Fringe box office for the following performances:
Thanks for visiting me at Photofair 2009, Spitalfields, London
Sunday 11 October 2009
Thank you so much for the overwhelming response to my images at this year's Photofair yesterday at Spitalfields. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and seeing all the terrific work on display. A number of people requested images at custom sizes and placing orders online. The images on display at the show are available in the following sizes and accept cash, cheques and credit cards:
- Framed & mounted (A2, image size A3)
- Mounted on museum board, ready to hang (A3)
- Mounted (11x14 inches, image size 8x10 inches)
I'm happy to create images for you at a custom size and mount option, so please don't hesitate to drop me a line with your requirements.
A flaneur video from November 2001
29 July 2009
I spent a gorgeous long weekend away in Kent and Sussex for my birthday in June and have been busy creating new photographic delights. I also happened upon a video I made with a friend in 2001. In the untitled piece, I glumly wander through a post-911 Hoboken to the tune of Sting’s rendition of Angel Eyes. It’s both the culmination of many, many years of making similar videos (me wandering through empty landscapes in search of a pretty girl or mourning something that’s been lost) and the start of my professional flaneurism.
“Serene” on display at the Viewfinder Gallery
10 January 2009
The image “Serene” from my series Riverside Enigmas is on display at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich, London from 10 January to 1 February 2009. It’s a terrific space and very near the Thames Path where I made these riverside images.
About my images
I am a cultural migrant who photographs the liminal, transitional spaces in which I seem to be suspended forever. My obsession with place and identity and the fervent desire to find a new home assumed a greater urgency when I moved to London.
The specifics of everyday life and our
perception of those qualities fascinate me. I blame my myopia for
this obsession which began at a very young age. My
‘nearsightedness’ made close objects appear sharp, but everything
beyond an arm's-length away looked as smeary as a water colour
painting. This defect of sight results from the same flaw that
produces a blurry photograph - my eye sits too far from my cornea
like a lens fixed too far from the film or digital sensor. Before I
finally discovered contact lenses as a teenager, I thought the
world quite uninteresting. The glasses I wore reinforced my sense
of otherness and distance. Although contact lenses allow me to see
as others see - or so I suppose - I still do find it difficult to
entirely cast off that early sense of separateness from the
world.
With the narratives in my pictures I bridge the distance between
myself, the world and you.